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Alma Heckman
University of California, Santa Cruz
Occupation
Associate Professor
Contact
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Maghreb Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Maghreb
Israel
Specialties
Syncretism In The Maghreb
Comparative Historiographies
Languages
French (fluent)
Arabic (advanced)
Hebrew (advanced)
Moroccan (advanced)
Latin (intermediate)
Spanish (intermediate)
Education
PhD | 2015 | History | UCLA
MA | 2012 | History | UCLA
BA | 2009 | Middle Eastern Studies & French | Wellesley College
Abstracts
Edmond Amran El Maleh: Jewish Nationalists and the Moroccan Communist Party Vichy Rule as Catalyst: Moroccan Jewish Political Participation and the Development of the Moroccan Communist Party Moroccan Jews in the Crosshairs of Modernity: Nationalism, Zionism and the Civilizing Mission Divided Dreams: Moroccan Jewish Migrations and Politicized Identities in the 1960s From Fluidity to Exclusivity: Interwar Moroccan Jewish Leftists and their Legacies Between Fascism and Anti-Fascism: the Jews of Tangier during the 1930s Moroccan Jewish and Muslim Anti-Fascism in the Interwar Period